Italo Calvino wrote Italian fiction that moves between fable, literary experiment and speculative structures. Invisible Cities presents imagined descriptions of cities through conversations between Marco Polo and Kublai Khan, turning place into a series of meditations on memory, desire and language. If on a winter's night a traveler makes the reader a character who repeatedly begins new novels but cannot finish them, while The Baron in the Trees follows a boy who chooses to live permanently above ground in the branches. Calvino's prose is light, precise and intellectually playful even when the structure becomes complex. His work fits postmodern fiction, fabulist literature and experimental novels about reading, imagination and form. Read more Less
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